New word? / technical term?

[Barbara Need]

On 11 Feb 2008, at 20:14, Michael H Covarrubias wrote:

> I've heard it referring to the passage that plays out a piece.
> often a repeated
> and fading segment.
>
> OED has it with a first cite 1967

Possible antedating (from the other list):

> I remember the term from my radio drama classes beginning in 1959.
>
> My teacher, one of many women broadcasters who got canned and
> replaced by a
> veteran after the second world war, had been a producer at NBC
> during the
> 1930s and '40s.

Barbara

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